In November, I wrote about how the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington was threatening to discontinue its social services program for the district if the city didn’t change a proposed same-sex marriage law.
Now, it appears the Archdiocese has followed through on that threat.
“The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has ended its 80-year-old foster-care program in the District rather than license same-sex couples, the first fallout from a bitter debate over the city’s move to legalize same-sex marriage.”
What a brave and noble stance to take! Finally, the church has stopped focusing its energy on stopping war, or helping the millions of war orphans and crippled children in the Middle East. It’s just hard luck those kids didn’t attract the Archdiocese’s attention a few years earlier when they were fetuses, the only stage of life the church seems interested in.
To be fair, the distinctively anti-life events of war and poverty are pretty big issues to tackle. It’s easier to hate on them queers.
This decision means the Archdiocese have nixed programs for homeless families, victims of domestic violence, and also foster care. Rather than risk having to place abandoned children in loving same-sex households, the Archdiocese has wisely decided to abandon them.
This intrepid stance demands respect especially when one considers the church’s waterloo occurs during a time when over a hundred scientific studies show that the grown-up children of gay parents do as well as children whose parents are heterosexual “in every way,” according to Professor Ellen C. Perrin, MD of Tufts University School of Medicine.
Strangely, Catholic Charities transferred its duties to the National Center for Children and Families, an organization that embraces Judeo-Christian values and Baptist heritage.
It’s unclear if NCCF plans to honor the city’s move to legalize same sex marriage, or if they will be the next organization to abandon the homeless and children.
Either God only cares if the church mingles with the gays sometimes, or the Catholic church harbors especially vicious stalwart anti-gay values, and has decided to play it safe by passing off its duties to the Baptists rather than risk an eternity in the lake of fire.
If NCCF decides to honor the same-sex marriage laws, then that means Catholic Charities has directly deposited helpless children into the sinner’s nest. Horror! Maybe they’ll burn down NCCF’s headquarters rather than allow the children suffer their terrible fate of being loved by two daddies.
